¡Amor visible! Propuestas didácticas sexodiversas en torno a Federico García Lorca

The omission of sexual and gender diversity is still common in secondary school language and literature classes, even when discussing authors in whose work it is central. The numerous achievements of the LGBTQ+ movement still encounter limitations in an area where many adolescents are beginning to discover themselves and do not always have access to texts or figures that reflect their feelings and experiences.

This volume offers a set of teaching proposals that incorporate sexual and gender diversity into the study of Federico García Lorca (1899-1936), the Spanish poet with the greatest international reach and one of the first victims of homophobia in the country. Ninety years after his death and almost one hundred years after the emergence of the legendary Generation of ’27, to which he belonged, it is essential to discuss those “unusual” desires and affections that both the poet and his contemporaries were pioneers in making it visible.

The diverse proposals gathered in en ¡Amor visible! focus on reconstructing the context, on a particular literary genre—poetry—and on García Lorca’s enduring influence on contemporary literature and culture. Their aim is to combine a dissident pedagogy that dismantles the heterosexist assumptions commonly reproduced by school curricula with innovative methodologies geared toward active student participation and the development of various skills.